Track Chairperson:	Eric Freese, Director of Professional Services, ISOGEN International/DataChannel, Inc.
Track Consultant:	Harvey Bingham, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Invited Expert
Today, it is most likely that your access to the Internet is via your PC. And you may think that "Web Accessibility" provides Web access people with disabilities. But think again! The new definition of "accessibility" means providing Web access for people at all times. This track will be designed to focus on all the related issues.

WHAT IS ACCESSIBILITY?

11:00 am
Web for All: Designing Accessible Web Sites
Designing accessible web sites benefits both your customers and your organization. Incorporating accessibility means that more people can effectively use your web site in more situations. By applying accessibility guidelines, your site can be used by customers who are blind or driving a car and using a voicing browser, by elderly customers with low vision who are using large fonts to make text readable, and by customers who have images turned off to speed download time. Bottom line, accessibility means more business. Learn more about designing an accessible Web site in this session.
by Shawn Lawton Henry, Director of R&D, Optavia Corporation

11:45 am
W3C’s XML Accessibility Guidelines
This document explains how to design accessible XML languages. Compared to the HTML or MathML language, XML is one level up: it is a meta syntax used to describe these languages as well as new ones, and it provides no intrinsic guarantee of device independence or textual alternate support. In this context, guidelines are needed that explain to XML formats and tools designers how to include basic accessibility features - such as the ones present in HTML - in all their new development.
Wendy Chisholm, W3C Web Accessibility Engineer, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL

2:00 pm
Delivering Location Smart Wireless Internet to Mobile Professionals
What killer apps and Web services would entice the mobile professionals? Would it be e-finding the nearest hotels and restaurants or bargain hunting with e-coupons and e-promotions? The missing links are device independence and "location" dependence. With device independence and "location" dependence, traditional brick-and-mortar businesses can be repositioned to compete in the e-world and conduct e-commerce without even having to build their own Web site. It's not the old Internet, but a new Internet on-the-go!
by Daniel T. Chang, Director of myWeb2Go, @Road, Inc.

2:45 pm
XML-based Delivery of Adaptive Voice and Information Services
This talk first presents our vision on new ways to create adaptive information and communication services in a highly efficient manner. This vision is based on (i) the use of XML as an enabler to separate the service's data model, its presentational and behavioral components and (ii) a unified RDF-based profile framework (describing user, terminal, service, etc.) which will drive the necessary adaptation processes. We present our experiences gained during the development of a multi-terminal service provisioning platform, integrating voice and information service authoring, on-line service adaptation and profile management utilities.
by Bart Bauwens, Senior Research Engineer, Corporate Research Center, Alcatel Bell

4:00 pm
Office Without Bounds—The Convergence of XML and Wireless
This presentation explores how a corporation can leverage an XML-powered e-business portal server to effectively remove the barriers separating remote workers from full, real-time interaction with enterprise information. Additionally, we will review several real-world examples of the benefits a company can realize by fully integrating wireless devices into the network.
by Bryan K. Caporlette, Vice President, E-Business Applications, Sequoia Software Corporation

4:45 pm
A Framework for Multilingual, Device Independent Web Sites
With the increasing proliferation of alternative web access devices, web site authors need to consider ways of presenting common content to a wide variety of devices and specializing that content to exploit the capabilities of the target device. In addition, content is usually available in only one language -- English. This paper describes a framework for creating multilingual, device independent web sites using XML and related standards as the enabling technologies. The key features of the framework are the separation of content and style and the use of parameterized dynamic document assembly to allow on-the-fly construction of web pages in a target language styled for a particular device.
by Marc J. Hadley, Chief Engineer, Chrystal Software, Inc.